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NY Tribune, 1872

FRED. DOUGLASS ON THE
DINNER QUESTION.

The following letter in
regard to the slight put upon Frederick Douglass by the president, was
written by the former to C. J. Langdon, Elmira, N. Y.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug.
15, 1872.

MY DEAR MR. LANGDON:
I am obliged by your favor of the 9th August. Absence from
home is my apology for my silence. I believe in Gen. Grant fully. There
is something so ridiculous about this dinner affair, that I really don't
care to talk or write about it. While it would have given me great
pleasure to dine with our worthy President, and while an invitation to
dine with him in the circumstances would have been a valuable fat
against prevailing prejudices, I should be ashamed to charge the
omission to invite me as an offense against me or my race. The President
was under no obligation to invite me to dine with him. It was am Matter
in which he had a perfect right to act free from outside guidance or
outsider criticism. I very much enjoyed my dinner at your hospitable
table mast Winter, as I had enjoyed thirty years go good dinners at the
house of your noble father, but while I appreciate the kind hospitality
in both cases, I do not bring any complaint against numerous good people
by whom I did not happen to be invited to dine. I maybe forced to say a
word more to the public on this subject, but I would rather avoid it. It
is enough that I am with all my health laboring to elect U. S. Grant
President of the United States for a second term. I certainly should not
so labor if I thought him capable of offering me an insult because of
the color of my skin. With kind remembrances to all your kind circle.
Yours very truly, Frederick Douglas.

MISCELLANEOUS
NEWS.

Thomas Punch of
Boston, age 23, was instantly killed at Salem, on Wednesday, by jumping
from a moving train.

Gen. Sherman visited
Oxford, England, on Thursday, and had a very agreeable reception from
the authorities of the University.

The Susanville stage
was robbed, near Reno, Nevada, after a brisk fight between passengers
and highwaymen. Nobody was killed.

None of the boys who
escaped from the Reform School at Westboro,' Mass., on Thursday were
captured the same night, and several others Friday.

S. V. R. Hickox, for
many years connected with The Chicago Tribune, in an editorial
capacity, died, Friday night, of Bright's disease of the kidneys.

Joseph MacElroy, a
gambler, late of New Orleans, was shot dead by Paul Kern, a prominent
vine grower of Los Angeles, Cal., Thursday evening, in a quarrel about
politics.

At a large meeting
of workingmen, held at Pittsburgh, Friday night, measures were adopted
to prohibit the introduction of Chinese coolie labor into the
manufactories of that city.